“7/26/2010, 11:29am EST”
“We are familiar with groups whose abuse we expose attempting to criticize the messenger to distract from the power of the message. We don’t see any difference in the White House’s response to this case to the other groups that we have exposed. We have tried hard to make sure that this material does not put innocents at harm. All the material is over seven months old so is of no current operational consequence, even though it may be of very significant investigative consequence.”
—Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, rebuking the White House’s knee-jerk contention that last night’s carefully planned leak of over 90,000 documents relating to the war in Afghanistan has harmed America’s national security. (Broken record, anyone?) What’s it like to live in a world where somebody — anybody — is acting as an intelligent, truth-seeking watchdog over the military and foreign affairs elements of world governments? I’m excited to find out. —Dan
Never leave home without it.
